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greyknight17

Posted 21 August 2005 - 08:46 AM

greyknight17

Malware Expert

Visiting Consultant

16,560 posts

Welcome to GTG.

Please print out or copy this page to Notepad. Make sure to work through the fixes in the exact order it is mentioned below. If there's anything that you don't understand, ask your question(s) before proceeding with the fixes. You should 'not' have any open browsers when you are following the procedures below.

1. Install Ewido Security Suite.2. When installing, under 'Additional Options' uncheck:* Install background guard* Install scan via context menu3. Launch Ewido, there should be an icon on your desktop, double click it.4. The program will now open to the main screen.5. When you run Ewido for the first time, you will get a warning 'Database could not be found!'. Click OK. We will fix this in a moment.6. You will need to update Ewido to the latest definition files.* On the left hand side of the main screen click update.* Then click on Start Update.7. The update will start and a progress bar will show the updates being installed. The status bar at the bottom will display 'Update successful'.8. Exit Ewido. DO NOT scan yet.

Restart your computer and boot into Safe Mode by hitting the F8 key repeatedly until a menu shows up (and choose Safe Mode from the list). In some systems, this may be the F5 key, so try that if F8 doesn't work.

Once in Safe Mode, double click on nailfix.exe.Click 'Next' in the setup, then make sure 'Run Nailfix' is checked and click 'Finish'.Your desktop and icons will disappear and reappear, and a window should open and close very quickly --- this is normal.

CleanUp! deletes EVERYTHING out of your temp/temporary folders, it does not make backups. If you have any documents or programs that are saved in any Temporary Folders, please make a backup of these before running CleanUp!. Run CleanUp! and click on the Options button. Uncheck 'Scan local drives for temporary files'. Also uncheck those two Newsgroup entries if you don't want to delete them. Click OK and then click on the CleanUp! button. Let it run. After it's done, choose Yes to logoff.

Now open Ewido and do a scan on your system.

* Click on scanner* Click on Complete System Scan and the scan will begin.* NOTE: During some scans with Ewido it is finding cases of false positives.o You will need to step through the process of cleaning files one-by-one.o If Ewido detects a file you KNOW to be legitimate, select none as the action.o Do NOT select 'Perform action on all infections'o If you are unsure of any entry found, select none for now as the action.* Once the scan has completed, there will be a button located on the bottom of the screen named Save report* Click Save report.* Save the report .txt file to your desktop or a location where you can find it easily.

Run a scan in HijackThis. Check each of the following and hit 'Fix checked' (after checking them) if they still exist (make sure not to miss any):

1. Unzip/extract the files to a folder on your desktop.2. Open the folder. Double click on FindIt's.bat and wait for Notepad to open a text file. It will take a while so please be patient... Note: If you are having problems using FindIt's.bat (16 bit error), copy autoexec.nt from the C:\WINDOWS\repair folder to C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder. Now try running FindIt's.bat.3. Then post the FindIt's log here along with the logs for HijackThis and Ewido.